Discuss the basic principles, defining the urban theories of Garnier, Le Corbusier and Frank Lloyd Wright. What architectural and cultural events influenced their ideas?

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15 April 2008

Urban Theories of Tony Garnier , Le Corbusier and Frank Lloyd Wright

Tony Garnier (1869-1948 , a French architect , designed an industrial city in response to urban growth problems . It is zoned according to residential , industrial , and commercial uses . It has concrete buildings landscaped residences , streetcars for commuters - all serviced by a technology but sensitively related to its environment (Schonfeld 1998 . However , it doesn 't have certain types of buildings - no walls no private property , no church , no barracks , no police station

, no law courts - as it is governed by a socialist law (Tse , 2002 . Garnier won the Grand Prix de Rome in 1899 that allowed him to reside at Villa Mydicis in Rome for four years - the place where he crafted this industrial city design that was published in 1917 as Une City Industrielle (Musye Urbain Tony Garnier

Le Corbusier (1887 - 1965 , pseudonym of Charles Edouard Jeanneret , a Swiss-French architect , argued that creating the right plan will answer most urban problems , such as traffic and housing (Tse , 2002 . His 1923 book Vers Une Architecture expressed his radical idea that a house is a machine for living ( Le Corbusier . His significant city plans include Ville Contemporaine (1920 ) and Ville Radieuse (1933 . But the Unity d 'Haitation in Marseilles in 1952 synthesized and put into practice his three decades of urban planning - it is seventeen-storey high incorporating various types of apartment , shops , recreation facilities , hotel , meeting rooms , and all connected by raised streets and central transportation terminal ( Le Corbusier

Frank Lloyd Wright (1867 - 1959 , an American architect , advanced the concept of organic architecture - which means that every building should relate harmoniously to its natural surroundings and that a building should not be a static , boxlike enclosure but a dynamic structure , with open , flowing interior spaces (Storrer , 2003 Moreover , his architecture is grounded on human dignity and America 's democratic values . He created the Prairie and Usonian residential styles . His 1934 Broadacre City with low-rise resettlements and an acre per living plot , was the zenith of his ideas on a new architecture for a new democracy (Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation

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